World records?

What is the world record on jumping with unicycle? If you know different results for seat out and seat in the would be highly appreciated. If you know about an older thread give me a link.

are you talking over a bar, or onto something? well, anyways, i’m not sure what the record is. i’ve jumped 95cm onto something, and 92.5cm over a bar. and in competition, 90cm over a bar. i’m not sure what kris has jumped, and i know that some people are close to 1m with roll-up hops onto stuff, but i d’ont think it’s really documented. Hopw that helps.
oh, and all my hopping was done seat-out.

-Ryan

Thanks. I’d like to know about both. Is there any page for official records?

So far the only measured way for high jump records has been over a bar as far as I know.

I jumped 90 cm over a bar at UNICON on a 19" trials uni and have jumped 87.5cm over a bar on a 24" MUni. I’m pretty sure I’ve done close to 1m onto something, both with seat out in front and also rolling hops. My best ever pedal grab (big fluke never repeated!) was 114 cm.

I think it would be good to categorize these as both official (ie done at major, judged competitions), and unofficial records.

For history’s sake, I think it’s worth keeping track of this for both 19" trials unicycles and for mountain unicycles (24" wheels or larger).

Also I think it’s worth keeping track of rolling hops versus seat-in-front hops.

If you really want to be detailed it might be cool to keep track of seat-in-front, no pre-hop, versus seat-in-front with pre-hop, as both techniques are separately important in trials.

So unofficially I think it’s as follows:

Sidehop over a bar, seat-in-front hop: Ryan Atkins, 92.5 cm

Sidehop over a bar, rolling hop: Not sure, Jacinto and also Dan Heaton have done 87cm

Sidehop over a bar on a 24" MUni (seat-in-front): Kris Holm, 87.5cm

Sidehop onto an obstacle, seat-in-front hop: not sure, probably around 100cm

Rolling hop onto an obstacle: don’t know who; likely slightly over 100cm

Pedal grab, seat-in-front: Kris Holm, 114 cm

Pedal grab, rolling-hop: Not sure, over 105cm by Dan Heaton I think.

Largest drop landed successfully: Kris Holm, 5 metres onto sand (16.5’). 4.26 (14’) metres onto a trail (Lobotomizer drop, North Shore).

Kris

To: m_extreme_uni. I live in Washinton and I’m almost 15. I have been practcing a lot of seat out hops. My record is about 3 inches short of 2 ft. I got some video clips on a CD from John Childs, I don’ t know if you know him. Anyway, one of the clips has you jumping 85cm onto a concrete block. I have noticed that at the height of your jump you sort of have the seat a little more forward tham usual. Probably so you could pull the seat up higher. Also, the wheel is almost behind you when you land. I have been trying to put the wheel a little bit behind me in the air when I jump, and it has added about 3 inches to my jump height.
Are there any tips you could give me to get more height on the seat out hops.

                                          -Sabin

(Excuse my ignorance, but I’m curious …)

Are these records with “on-balance” landings?

Or are they counted (even) if the landing is immediately followed by a UPD?

Thanks,
.duaner.

I’ve red your comments to the highest records, Kris. It’s really impressive to hear about sidehops about 1 metre. A few months ago I thought that the limit must be around 80cm or so, but now I think that training is all at these discipline…

_Felix

For anything to count, you must land in control. For hops, this is usually defined by riding at least 3 pedal revolutions or 3 seconds afterwards,. For drops it might possibly be good to make it more than this because you sometimes make 3 revs at 200 rpm and then wipe out soon after!

My feeling is that breaking the 100cm barrier over a bar will be really significant, and that the increment of records will slow down a LOT after that. Right now it’s still going up really fast (the world sidehop record in 1998 was 62cm!).

Pedal grabs should get a fair bit higher. Athough I thought 114cm was high at the time, if you can do 90 cm over a bar you should be able to pedal grab at least 125cm, theoretically. Also, to jump over a 90cm bar you need to jump around 95cm to clear your pedals on the way down.

This is just an opinion but I also think that the drop record is a stupid record. This isn’t anything to do with big drops being stupid, it’s just irritating sometimes that people who don’t know anything about mountain unicycling (or biking) often measure riding skill by how high a drop you can land, and this completely ignores the 99% of riding that is more interesting and complex than basic hucking. Sometimes this happens in the cycling crowd too- I actually had a kid come up to me once and ask me how high a drop he had to land before Norco would be interested in sponsoring him(!?). Anyway that’s my rant for the day.

Kris

I think that may have been 1999. I don’t think anyone was measuring in '98. In '99 we did the “long jump” competition for the first time at the USA Nationals, but I believe that year there was a requirement for riding forward. I don’t remember if they slacked off and let people clear the “sticks” any way they wanted.

Now that I think of it though, I think a farther distance was done in '99; at least 75cm, so maybe Kris is right!

Amen. Anyone can fall off a log. Being able to ride on it, onto it, or jump over it takes the real skill. Sure there is some skill in surviving drops, but it’s not very important in relation to being able to ride over or otherwise clear obstacles.

There’s something distinctly Road Runner about big drops…

Yes, a drop record is stupid but some drops still look nice. Still, they are too much appreciaited. You can see a hell of a lot drops in these new films people keep doing. Maybe they should concentrate more on driving on skinnies and jumping. For example havent seen too much of these jumps that include a 180 degree spin and continue riding backwards (BTW what is it called?). This would look nice if done on a railing or something similar.

Jeff [?] did ~92cm, unofficially, on what I think was a 24" at NAUCC 2003. He did it in practice, unfortunately, along with several riders on 20" trials unis. When they finally went to official scoring, he had lost it and could only get 60 cm; Ryan had lost 2cm for his official result of ~90cm. Perhaps Ryan or one of the Boston riders could second or correct me on this. Jeff used two hands on the seat-in-front for his jumps. I think everyone else near that height was on a 20" uni.

Jacinto also did a substantial rolling hop over a bar; 85 cm+, if I remember correctly. Enough to severely challenge Ryan but not enough to beat him.

This event was very exciting and worth spraining my ankle just to see it up close.

And that’s the big difference between a competition record and an arbitrary record. In competition, you only have a small number of tries to do your very best, and results are more consistent with what people are able to do on a regular basis.

This is why competition records should be listed separately from “solo” records a person may do on their own, or even “practice” records done at a competition venue but not as part of the actual official competition. I’ve done the same on the Obstacle Course; 19.4 seconds in practice, while my record is 19.8 official.

Well, u-turn, i don’t remember Jeff jumping 92cm in the competition. The only jeff that i knew was there can’t jump that high. And the only high jumping person on a 24inch wheel, was Steve, who i believe jumped around 85cm. Anyways…

As for high jump techniques… you pretty much have figured as much as you can out on your own. The rest comes from practice.

Finally, i have a new record to add. I have pedal grabbed 116 cm before, and have at least done 105 from a rolling hop. It’s weird. with that big pedal grab, i just saw a juge ledge, and went for it. got it first try. it was the height of my lowest rib. and i got it more than once.

-Ryan

It must have been Steve, then. Thanks, Ryan.

But I think that the whole point of a world record is the very best, no matter when or where. Not the consistant best, but the straight up unrepeated best. I think records are meant to be unrepeatable, otherwise they aren’t really very good records. For example, if you asked an olympic runner to repeat or break their world record time of say, the 100m sprint, chances are, they won’t be able to do it. I think that’s the nature of a record, not to say that records can’t be broken, just that it doesn’t matter where or in what case they were made, as long as they were under the influence of the same amount of gravity I don’t care when people set their records, cuz I know they were done. My 2 cents.

New hop record

Today I set my best record yet 26 inches (65 cm) onto stacked pallets.
this was done seat out

I feel more confident than ever. Although, 65 cm isn’t all that high compared to what Kris and Ryan can hop. Anyway, I am really proud of myself.

-Sabin

Good Job!:smiley:

Funny, earlier in this thread (about a month ago), you say you can hop 21". What a contrast.
I now have 21" down, but now I need to work on 24". Is there really much of a diference? Hopefuly I’ll have 26" within the next month, if I can practice enough.

Yeah I have like 16" seat out and 21" rolling…this is because I didn’t start doing seat out till like 2 months ago. I also haven’t been practicing as much lately…Now I gotta go start practicing again so you guys don’t jump TOO much higher than me!

Re: New hop record

how many pallets is that? 3-4?

No…it’s way more than that…4 pallets is 16"(depending on the pallets of course) he probably uses at least 6. plus extra